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Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive science fiction. Ray and Ruby Tebbutt are a Norfolk couple struggling to pay off a loan they could not afford. Peter Petrik, a small-time Czech film director, is involved with an Irish arms smuggler. Domi...

Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive fiction. In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can now travel to the past using a technique called "mind-traveling." Artist Edward Bush returns from a nearly three-year ...

Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive science fiction. Analyst Clement Winters is trying to write a biography of his recently deceased older brother, Joseph. Through the writings Joseph left behind-letters, diaries, notes, and confessions-Cle...

Human reproduction has ceased and society slowly spirals in this "adult Lord of the Flies" by a Grand Master of Science Fiction (San Francisco Chronicle). After the "Accident, " all males on Earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First, toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now Earth's population lives in spread-out, isolated villages, with its youngest members in their fifties....

In a future where the Earth has been savaged by overpopulation and over-farming, robots are considered more valuable than humans and sand must be altered to create artificially fertile soil. Ex-convict Knowle Noland, the hallucinating sea captain of the Trieste Star, finds himself wrapped up in a plot to incite a global war that will wipe out millions. War, it seems, is the only way to drastically reduce the population and create a better worl...

What would intelligent life-forms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures on six legs that wallow in their own excrement? Upon first contact with the Utod- intelligent, pacifist beings who feel no pain-mankind instantly views these aliens as animals because of their unhygienic customs. This leads to the slaughter, capture, and dissection of the Utod. But when one explore...

The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and Science Fiction Grand Master delivers a sweeping epic of a planet suffering deadly conditions of alternating extremes in this Nebula Award finalist Helliconia follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system with a twenty-six-hundred-year cycle of very long seasons. As spring slowly breaks the brutally long winter, humans emerge from hiding and a long sequence of civilization and growth begi...

From a Bram Stoker Award winner, the first tale of the ancient Carpathian vampire, set in the Paris of King Louis XV . . .   Le Comte de Saint¿Germain appears to be a wealthy, worldly aristocrat, envied and desired by many but fully known to none. In fact, he is a vampire, born in the Carpathian Mountains in 2119 BCE, turned in his late thirties, and destined to roam the world forever, watching and participating in history.   In Hôtel Transylv...

A secret society of Janitors with wizard-like powers continues its battle, and now, the stakes are even higher. The Bureau of Educational Maintenance is after Alan Zumbro and this time they mean businessNdeadly business. Spencer, Daisy, and their little team of rebels must find the source of all magical Glop and destroy it before it can destroy the world.

Max may be the cleanest kid in the worldNhis neat-freak parents make certain of that. But what's behind their mysterious fear of mud? After Max falls into a murky puddle, he discovers mud gives him super powers. But there's more going on in Marsh CreekNand in his familyNthan he could ever imagine.

My Happy Pumpkin, written by Crystal Bowman and illustrated by Claudine Gevry, shares the delight of pumpkin season and how God's light shines in us.

Desmond Pucket is back in this follow-up to "Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic." It's the sixth-grade field trip to Crab Shell Pier, home to the world's most awesome ride. Desmond hopes to convince Tina Schimsky to ride it with him, but once in the park he finds that executing his master plan will be no simple feat.

The work of prolific Washington artist Brad Kauzlaric (1936-2007) includes surrealist vistas, photorealistic still lifes, and vibrant mosaics with an unusual source of inspiration: Kauzlaric's job as a Pacific Northwest sanitation worker. He translated the people, the places, and sometimes the garbage itself that he encountered in his day job into remarkable works of art. Kauzlaric's passion for art fueled the creation of hundreds of paintings...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes delivers a passionate, danger-filled Regency romance...The past will overtake him...Abandoned in France since boyhood, despite being heir to an English barony, Sebastian St. Clair makes impossible choices to survive a tour of duty in the French Army. He returns to England hoping for the peaceful life of a country gentleman, though old enemies insist on challenging him on the field ...

Top College Essays That Show You What WorksIntroducing the ultimate guide to crafting college essays that truly make an impact! Fiske Real College Essays That Work by former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske is packed with invaluable insights and expert advice and empowers you to create standout application essays that capture the attention of college admissions officers.Key Features: Real-life Examples: Explore a curated collect...

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An ancient vampire born in the Carpathian Mountains journeys to Renaissance Florence in this novel by a Bram Stoker Award winner. In Paris during the reign of Louis XV, Le Comte de Saint-Germain was known as a wealthy, worldly, charismatic aristocrat, envied and desired by many but fully known to none. In fact, he was a vampire, born in the Carpathian Mountains in 2119 BCE, turned in his late thirties, and destined to roam the world forever, w...

To the High Redoubt is an engaging, epic fantasy adventure written by the creator of the widely read series of novels about the immortal vampire known as Le Comte de Saint¿Germain. In his quest for power, Bundhi, Lord of Darkness and stealer of souls, has taken family, vision, and freedom from Surata, the last surviving adept in tantric alchemy, before selling her into slavery in a distant land. But he has underestimated the depth of Surata’s ...

An enlightening look at a cardiac condition that can cause fatigue, fainting, and other symptoms—yet often goes undiagnosed.   After Sharon Anderson discovered that she had Mitral Valve Prolapse, she set out to learn as much as she could about this little-known heart problem—a syndrome that can lead to palpitations, fainting, fatigue, shortness of breath, migraine headaches, chest pain, episodes of extremely rapid or irregular heartbeat, dizzi...

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